2026-04-17
3 分钟One thing about English that might seem strange to you is when you hear sentences like,
that 's an idea I 've never heard of.
You might wonder how and why English speakers can end a sentence with a preposition like of.
I'm guessing that in your native language, it's not very common to have prepositions at the end of sentences like this.
In English, we call these dangling prepositions.
In the next few minutes I want to show you some examples of how these dangling prepositions work.
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So, in the past, it was considered bad grammar to put a preposition on the end of a sentence in English,
but now everybody does this, and it 's something that you probably
have to do if you want to sound natural when speaking English.
Let's take another look at the sentence I said earlier.
That's an idea I've never heard of.
Many years ago, this sentence would have sounded like poor grammar.
English speakers at that time might have said this sentence instead.
That's an idea of which I've never heard.
Do you notice the difference?
They would have said of which instead of putting the preposition of at the end of the sentence.
However, nowadays almost nobody here in the US would say the sentence with the phrase of which.
It feels uncomfortable for most people to have to put the preposition in the earlier position like this.